DEEP DIVE
Episode 59: Hiroshima, 75 years after the atomic bomb
BY OSCAR BOYD AND PETER CHORDAS
STAFF WRITERS
AUG 6, 2020

At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, some 350,000 people in Hiroshima were just beginning their day when an atomic bomb, nicknamed “Little Boy,” detonated 580 meters above the city, quickly killing an estimated 70,000 people.

The people alive today who survived the bombing of Hiroshima, and the subsequent destruction of Nagasaki, are known in Japanese as hibakusha. But 75 years on from the bombing, the number of survivors able to tell their stories is dwindling as they grow old and die.

Japan Times contributor and Hiroshima resident Peter Chordas joins to discuss the effects of the bomb on the city, and how those survivors’ legacies are being preserved. Hosted by Oscar Boyd.

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